Improvement in pruning hatchets



duted gte-tee @Etaient @wie JEEIsoN WHITE, oE PROVIDENCE, PENNSYLVANIA.

'Letters Patent No. 111,024, dated tammy 17, .1871.

IMPROVEMENT iurauulue HATcHETs.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pari; of the same. i

To all whom it may concern'.-

Be it known that, JEEIsoN WHITE, of Providence, in the county of Luzerne and in' the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain 'new and useful Second, the pruning-knife edge 4, so constructed as vtobe used in the ,handfor trimming small branches.

Third, the hook-edge 5,'.nsed for cutting small limbs by drawing the .tool toward the-operator.

described.

Fourth, the convex` or hatol1etedge 3, to be used as a hatehet as the occasion may require.. y

Fifth, the shank and socket O, furnished with a thumb-screw, D, by which the tool may be readily fastened" or detached from the Vhandle on which it is used;

-Dcscm'ption of Accompanying Drawing. i Figure 1 is a side view, showing edges 2, 33, 4, and 5. Figure 2 is a longitudinal cross-section ou line with the center of handle and shank.

C, socket in which the handle is inserted. D, hole to receive'thumb-screw.

Claim.

I claimas myinventioni The construction of a pruning-hatchet, consisting of the concaved edges 2,4, and 5, with the convex edge 3, and the shank and socket C, constructed as NVitnesses: JERISON WHITE.

E. H. WHITE,

OHAs.- BABCOGK. 

